A phase-reduced neuro-mechanical model for insect locomotion: Feed-forward stability and proprioceptive feedback

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1930, 2010, Pages 5087-5104

  Proctor, T ^a   Kukillaya, R P ^a   Holmes, P ^a,b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Hill muscle model; Motoneuron; Phase reduction; Phaseresponse curve; Proprioceptive feedback

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; LOCOMOTIVES; NEURONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RAILROAD CARS;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; HILL MUSCLE MODEL; MOTONEURON; PHASE REDUCTION; PHASERESPONSE CURVE; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COCKROACH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COCKROACHES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649338530     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0134     Document Type: Article

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